Dr. Tim Brown, IntelliSkin Founder/Creator
Finding Mastery with Dr. Michael Gervais
Dr. Michael Gervais
4.6 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 17 April 2019
⏱️ 94 minutes
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Summary
This week’s conversation is with Dr. Tim Brown, the inventor of IntelliSkin.
Tim grew to understand his future creation while working as the medical director on the ASP (association of surfing professionals) and the AVP (association of volleyball professionals) during the 1980’s.
As an early innovator in functional taping, he developed a hybrid kinesiology technique known as SPRT (Specific Proprioceptive Response Taping).
Used on athletes from Olympians to NFL players, the technique quickly became a staple in the athletic world as it allowed athletes to function at a higher level.
Tim’s instinctive techniques got athletes asking for taping remedies so often, that he needed something that could do the job when he wasn’t there.
Many late nights of trial and error using remnants of old wetsuits and rash guards, he devised a wearable technology that mimicked his taping technique.
Tim’s goal was to take what he had learned in designing and come up with a comfortable, Smart Compression shirt that would clinically improve posture and spinal alignment for everyone, whether you’re an elite athlete or a weekend warrior.
I wanted to talk with Tim because not only does he have an incredible understanding of the proper function for the human body (both for professionals, as well as, for the rest of us), but also to get inside the mind of an disruptive product innovator.
Tim believes the paradigm for fitness is broken and it starts with getting posture right.
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| 0:00.0 | No position gives the body more energy and more potential than posture, |
| 0:06.0 | whether you're an athlete or you're working at a computer. |
| 0:09.0 | Our systems communicate better when we have posture. |
| 0:13.6 | Everything works at its ideal level, right? |
| 0:15.6 | Our breath works right, our alignments right. |
| 0:18.2 | The body's under the least amount of stress. |
| 0:20.0 | It works best in the field of gravity |
| 0:21.8 | when we're in posture. |
| 0:23.2 | And posture is not just a static thing, |
| 0:24.9 | it's a movement thing too. |
| 0:26.6 | So training people how to move in posture is critical too. |
| 0:29.8 | That's why we never learned that growing up. |
| 0:32.0 | So these athletes that go out there and have all these great |
| 0:34.2 | potentials genetically haven't even touched how good they can get if they were able to put all these |
| 0:39.7 | systems together. Okay, welcome back or welcome to the Finding Mastery Podcast on Michael Jervay, and by Trade and Training, a sports psychologist, |
| 0:56.9 | as well as the co-founder of Compete to Create. And the whole idea behind these conversations is to learn from people who really understand stuff, who really understand their craft and how to articulate it. |
| 1:10.0 | And we want to dig deeper to understand, like, how did they position themselves their inner life? How did they work to have some alignment of their inner life and to organize their external world to really pursue both mastery of craft or mastery of self. |
| 1:26.0 | And we want to dig to understand the mental skills that they use to build and refine that craft. |
| 1:32.0 | I am really excited to announce that this year, |
| 1:35.0 | Finding Mastery is releasing our first ever holiday gift guide. |
| 1:39.0 | Yes. |
| 1:40.0 | Having spent decades working with and around some of the most driven people on the planet, |
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